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What are the Seven Wonders of the World?: And Other Great Cultural Lists - Fully Described

1 review
Peter D'Epiro, Mary Desmond Pinkowish

Metro Books,London, 1999

Re-arrange my mind, please
a fascinating and enriching journey that quizzically uses numbers to break down various hierarchies of knowledge and string together a wide range of topics in a way that almost makes sense. The writing is lively and engaging and the reader will discover that learning a lot in a short amount of time can be fun. It's a very creative book that I am glad to have stumbled across. It is thoroughly ...

What Are the Seven Wonders of the World?: And Other Cultural Lists -- Fully Described
Peter D'Epiro, Mary Desmond Pinkowish

Diane Pub Co, 1999

As phrases they are very familiar -- the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, the seven ages of man, the twelve labors of Hercules -- but how easy is it to name the horsemen or recite the ages? Here are 76 lists -- all of them significant in some way -- & accompanying essays identify & explain every item & discuss each list in its larger historical & cultural context. Drawn from the classical world, the Bible & religion, history, lit., science & ...

What Are the Seven Wonders of the World? and 100 Other Great Cultural Lists--Fully Explicated

25 reviews
Peter D'Epiro, Mary Desmond Pinkowish

Anchor, 1998

Not your typical book of lists
I found this interesting book via a book club I belong to. I've used it extensively in research for debating as well as writing fanfiction. Encyclopedic in nature (it covers a wealth of subjects from history to science to the arts) and intelligently written, I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys learning.

Sieben Weltwunder, drei Furien. Und 64 andere Fragen, auf die Sie keine Antwort wissen.
Peter DEpiro, Mary Desmond Pinkowish

Piper, 2002

Sprezzatura
Peter/ Pinkowish, Mary Desmond D'Epiro

Random House Inc, 2001

Sprezzatura: 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World

12 reviews
Peter D'Epiro, Mary Desmond Pinkowish

Anchor, 2001

A remarkable achievement
Sprezzatura is a remarkable achievement. D'Epiro's and Pinkowish's tour of two thousand years of Italian history demonstrates the same "effortless mastery" they chronicle in the fascinating men and women who people their book. The 50 essays are well chosen and cover the whole gamut of Italian genius - in art, in music, in science, in politics, in fashion...you name it. It's an excellent ...